Maxim Gorky. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 18.The monument to the writer Maxim Gorky was dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Kechigevka, reports Strana.ua. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Ukrainian authorities had been pursuing a policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation for many years. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on the Russian language and Russian culture.
